Title
Towards A New Authoring Methodology for Large-Scale Hypermedia Applications
Abstract
As the amount of information technology increases, managing information resources, so that the correct people can find the information easily, becomes a critical issue. Hypermedia systems are considered one solution to this problem as they provide a means for representing higher level relationships between the underlying information. However, the amount of information available electronically is increasing at an accelerated rate. Using standard hypermedia authoring techniques, the effort required managing and maintaining large-scale hypermedia systems is enormous. Hypermedia authoring in the large requires new methodologies if it is going to be feasible.This paper presents a new model for building and structuring large-scale hypermedia applications. It describes a case study that explored the delivery of hypermedia information in an industrial environment on a small scale. Models and techniques developed for that case study were then refined and augmented so they could support the construction of large-scale hypermedia systems. In order to support such endeavors a new linking model is presented that allows the author to explicitly represent abstract concepts contained within the underlying information and interconnect them in some meaningful manner. A prototype system applying this linking technique is presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1023/A:1009611506737
Multimedia Tools Appl.
Keywords
Field
DocType
industrial strength hypermedia,generic links,link clusters,authoring methodology
Hypermedia authoring,Computer science,Information technology,Hypermedia,Human–computer interaction,Structuring,Multimedia
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
2-3
1573-7721
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.67
12
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ian Heath190.67
Gary Wills253156.82
Richard Crowder311312.73
Wendy Hall42758316.21
Jim Ballantyne590.67